Elon Musk
also referred to as: elon
46 statements across 14 episodes · 25 bullish · 6 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Apr 9, 2024 by Codie Sanchez · said 372 times in 48 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Codie Sanchez (313), Eric Jorgenson (26), Joe Lonsdale (5), Ethan Evans (5), Morgan Housel (4), Kimberly Van Der Beek (4), Robert Herjavec (3), David Senra (3)
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2026 252 mentions in 20 episodes 13 per episode
- How Elon Musk Solves Problems | Eric Jorgenson
- Scott Galloway: The ONLY Savings Strategy You Need
- How to Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky) | Eric Jorgenson on Naval Ravikant
- The Mindset Shift That Made Me Millions | Robert Herjavec
- Ex-Amazon VP: Lessons from Working with Jeff Bezos that Changed My Life | Ethan Evans
- Be ARTICULATE and Speak SMARTLY: Communicate Like A Pro
- Wealth Expert: Do THIS Every Time You Get Paid | Morgan Housel
- Inside the Minds of the Most Successful Founders | David Senra
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 42 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- How To Set Goals For 2026 That You’ll Actually Follow Through On
- AI Expert: What Scares Me Most (Here's What I Found): Brendan McCord
- Why You're Not Getting Pregnant | Kimberly Van Der Beek
- They’re Lying to You About Getting Rich
- My Billion Dollar Shark Tank Investment: Daymond John
- Ozempic Expert: They’re Lying To You About Getting Fat | Dr. Tyna Moore
- Billionaire’s Advice to Young People | Joe Liemandt
- Brainwash Yourself to Success | Kendra Scott
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 78 mentions in 11 episodes 7 per episode
- How the Debt Crisis ACTUALLY Affects You
- How the US is SABOTAGING Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway
- Follow These 10 Steps to Completely Change Your Life in 2025 | BigDeal Wrapped
- Billionaire Entrepreneur: “America Will Collapse Without A Recession” | Joe Lonsdale
- American Policymaker Reveals How Politics REALLY Works | Ryan Streeter
- Tinder’s Founder on Becoming a Billionaire, Tinder’s #1 Mistake, and Free Speech
- Why is Everyone so Emotionally Fragile? (ft. Danica Patrick)
- How to Effortlessly Build an 8-Figure Business in 2024 (feat. @aliabdaal)
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Elon Musk, oldest first
Apr 9, 2024 positive
Sanchez: Major innovations require intensely driven, irrational founders like Elon Musk
“You like your Tesla? You wouldn't have it if fucking Elon wasn't a psychopath out there working super hard every day. And the same thing goes for most of the things that we take for granted. It's because some irrational human Was so driven for the pursuit that…”
Sep 24, 2024 positive
Oct 1, 2024 neutral
Lonsdale recalls 2015 dinner where Musk and Zuckerberg debated AI risk
“So about nine years ago in California, I used to live in California here in Texas, which we love, but I had a dinner with, it was actually Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and about five other friends about AI. And this is like well before OpenAI, you know, all o…”
Oct 1, 2024 negative
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Galloway: Elon Musk is not a good role model for men
“I also think he should be held accountable for his coarseness and his cruelty. I don't think you attain that level of power such that you cannot pay people their legally obligated severance. I don't think you accuse an employee of being a sex criminal such tha…”
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Galloway: Major tech companies were built on taxpayer-funded technology
“Every one of these companies is built on a technology that was funded by American middle class taxpayers, whether it was DARPA, whether Elon Musk got a three hundred fifty million dollar tax-free loan. He hates subsidies, but he was there for it when we gave h…”
Dec 31, 2024 neutral
Dec 31, 2024 neutral
Dec 31, 2024 positive
Dec 31, 2024 negative
Jan 15, 2025 neutral
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Sanchez: Elon Musk-backed Alpha School uses AI to condense daily learning
“There's Alpha School, which is like Joe Lamont. That's Elon Musk backing it where they do you should actually get connected with this guy. It's fascinating. I'm going to go out and visit Mackenzie's the head of the school. I think she has a lot of similar beli…”
Jun 19, 2025 bearish
McCord: AI without Western values will become a perfect system of control
“So I think Elon's right. I think you need to have people that are focused on the human goods, focused on key ideas that underpin the West, building these systems. And if you don't have that, you're going to have one of the most perfect systems of control ever,…”
Feb 19, 2026 positive
Senra: Daniel Ek Succeeds as a 'Coach' Rather Than a 'Player' Founder
“And what Daniel's realizing, and it's been very helpful cause he definitely shapes my thinking on a lot of things. Is he's like, I just think I'm a better player than coach or excuse me, better coach than player. And Steve's a player. Elon's a player. He says,…”
Feb 27, 2026 neutral
Housel: There is no lifestyle difference between $100M and $100B
“There's no difference in lifestyle whatsoever. For most of the people, there'd be no difference in lifestyle between a hundred million and a hundred billion. You know, you're, you have too many houses, you have planes, you have everything you could want.”
Feb 27, 2026 neutral
Housel: Elon Musk will either become a trillionaire or go bankrupt
“That's why I think, like, Elon Musk will either be a trillionaire or bankrupt. And at this point, it's much closer to trillionaire at this point. But if you looked at him 10 years ago, when he was not the richest man in the world, you could see that. Like, thi…”
Mar 9, 2026 negative
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
May 7, 2026 bullish
Jun 15, 2026 positive
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jorgenson: Electric cars at scale would not exist without Elon Musk
“Social networks would have happened without Zuckerberg. Search engines would have happened without Larry and Sergey. Pick your thing. We would have had operating systems without Bill Gates. We would have computers without jobs. It's not clear that we would hav…”
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jorgenson: Musk solved a months-long Starship bottleneck in an overnight surge
“They'd spent months trying to, like, weld a dome for Starship that fit over the, this, like stainless steel cone that was gonna go over the top of the rocket, and they hadn't gotten it done for months, and he just showed up at the site, was like, we're gonna h…”
Jun 17, 2026
Jorgenson: Raw materials are 30% of an iPhone's cost, 1% for rockets
“For reference, like your iPhone, like the raw materials of your iPhone is like 30% or a car is like 30%. So that's like a good ratio for a complex manufactured product. But aerospace, when he looked into rockets, the rocket as a whole, he did an X was like a t…”
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jorgenson: Musk stacked Starship months early to generate public momentum
“He famously stacked Starship, like, months before it was even close to launch, and it wasn't because it needed to be done, it wasn't because it was a bottleneck, but he said now people started sharing photos of this absolutely behemoth rocket, and it started t…”
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jorgenson: 99.9% of organizations err on firing employees too slowly
“And what I realized is like erring on the side of firing too quickly is actually so rare. And so we have such like an emotional reaction to it. Oh, it's unfair, but actually 99.9% of organizations on the planet are erring on the side of firing too slowly.”
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jorgenson: Elon Musk's five-step engineering algorithm must be followed in strict order
“The algorithm is five steps, and the order is very important. So the first step is to question every requirement. He says, no matter how many requirements there are, question them, eliminate as many as you can. Every existing requirement must have an individua…”
Jun 17, 2026
Jorgenson: Tesla won Daimler by electrifying a Smart car in 30 hours
“He got the Daimler deal in part because at Tesla, the Tesla the executives from Daimler were coming to visit Tesla. And he's like, we have a slideshow. We have a presentation like that is insufficient evidence. So In, like, 30 hours, you grabbed engineers, and…”
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jorgenson: Elon Musk demands order-of-magnitude targets over incremental 20% goals
“One of his things is like order of magnitude goals. You know, you're not gonna hear him ever say like, I would like you to increase that by 20%, please. You'd be like, drop that. The cost of that should be one percent of what it is. Or I want you to increase t…”
Jun 17, 2026 bullish
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jorgenson: High-growth companies compress a 10-year career into a 3-year tenure
“You know, the rule of thumb in startups is like you, you're a different organization every time you triple in headcount. Or roughly an order of magnitude, right? And so, what he says is like, what looks like a three-year churn is actually a full tour of duty. …”
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jun 17, 2026
Jorgenson: SpaceX originally started as a philanthropic Mars greenhouse mission
“People don't realize SpaceX was not originally a company. It was a philanthropic mission. He had Almost two hundred million dollars from their sale of PayPal. And his first plan was to just shoot a rocket to Mars. Have a little greenhouse on the surface of Mar…”
Jun 17, 2026 neutral
Jorgenson: Political involvement inevitably creates enemies and reputational attacks
“Since he got involved in politics, I think it's very hard to be involved in politics at all without Making enemies. Like, it's just such a zero-sum thing that there's people just really eager to distort and take down reputations, and there's people that take s…”
Jun 17, 2026
Jorgenson: Most CEOs get trapped in minutiae instead of attacking bottlenecks
“And so many CEOs that we know, so many operators are like, well, I've got a board meeting to prepare for. I've got a weekly meeting. I've got a status update. I've got to do this. I've got to do that. And they're sort of caught in the like minutia and maintena…”
Jun 17, 2026 neutral
Jorgenson: Musk escalates status updates to hourly 24/7 emails during bottlenecks
“The status updates escalate with how serious the bottleneck is. So weekly cadence for, you know, maybe a normal bottleneck. It'll go to daily, like a daily, 24 hour sync on whatever the bottleneck is to run the algorithm on it. For one week, one guy, I don't k…”
Jun 17, 2026
Jun 17, 2026 positive
Jun 17, 2026 bullish
Jun 17, 2026
Jorgenson: Benchmarking against industry best practice yields only incremental gains
“When I hear, well, best practice is X, I'm like, oh, we're already lost. Like we're starting from a bad place because only incremental improvements are going to come from like, well, how do we do it today? Where he starts with is like, what is the theoreticall…”